Notes / Commercial Description:
Breakside’s most popular offering is this beautifully clear India Pale Ale featuring the unique character of Citra and Chinook hops. This light copper beer has huge citrus and tropical fruit aromas with hints of perfume and pine. Flavors like apricot, guava, and orange hit the tongue accompanied by a mild evergreen note. There’s just enough caramel sweetness to balance the hop flavors, but this is really a showcase for the beautiful varieties of hops grown here in the Northwest. Like all Breakside beers, this has a notably dry finish and, in true IPA form, a restrained but persistent bitterness. It’s one of the most drinkable IPAs around!

More User Reviews:

From the NON FRESHNESS DATED bomber into a Sam Smith's perfect pint glass results in a very clear orange body capped by a tawny one inch fluffy head that slowly recedes into a cap of sticky foam,
Aroma is pungent grapefruit, pineapple and pine. Assertive and mouth watering. Reminds me of Pliny the Elder but more tropical.
Taste is superb, pine resin and grapefruit rind play a game with the barely discernible sweetness of the malts, the aroma pulls this one into the pineapple territory. Just magnificent.
Medium bodied, certainly something you wouldn't want to drink a ton of in one setting but memorable for the intensity.
Overall a stellar IPA that hits a lot of good points. Too bad they can't put a date on the bottle.

Had it on tap at the Brewpub. Was a little surprised when it won the Gold Medal. It's fairly well balanced, but a little too much on the dry/piney/bitter side for me. Wasn't a go to IPA for me before and probably still isn't, but is a good representation of the style.

The gold medal winner within staggering distance of my house? Truly a blessing and a curse. This is the real deal. I have yet to try I beer from Breakside that I don't like, but this is definitely their best.

This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a moderately hazy burnt yellow to orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. Light spider web stringy lacing slides into the beer.
The smell started off with some tropical fruit and brings in a nice amount of bitter piney-ness.
The taste moderates between the sweet part of the tropical fruit to the bitterness of the pine, doesn't seem like it necessarily connects but isn't a bad thing.
The mouthfeel takes the harshness from the bitter pine and slides into a light to medium sort of body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good for the style and for me.
Overall, it has all of the makings of what could possibly be an exceptional AIPA but if that smell could just come together. Wish I knew how old the bottle is.

22oz bomber for $5.99. I only heard about this beer due to its recent GABF gold medal and I was skeptical. I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Nice orange color, good head. Aroma was fruity, piney, hoppy. The flavor was seriously hoppy, grapefruit, citrus, touch of hop cones mixed with pine cones. I think I have returned for three or four more bottles since the first one, great IPA.

Served on tap at the Breakside Brewpub.
Appearance cloudy clearly unfiltered. Citrus notes in the aroma.
Taste? Nothing refined about this beer. An attack on the senses. Grapefruit that sucks the cheeks into the mouth. As if they infused the beer with grapefruit rind.
Loved it.
Have to tick down a notch on mouthfeel though. Just doesn't linger well.
All in all a fun experience. I'm glad I had a chance to tic this one off.

22oz bomber served in a tulip. Pours a clear orange/golden color with a white head. There is some residual lacing. There was a blast of floral notes when opening the bottle. Floral and citrus notes abound. The taste is very well balanced with a slight amount of bitterness on the finish. An very good IPA.

On tap at Brewer's Republic in CO Springs. Nice hazy gold/orange color, one finger head that faded after a bit to a thin film, but left nice lacing. Great aromas of pineapple, mango, and pine, with just a hint of a honey-like smell. Lots of citrus and tropical fruits in the flavors, with mango being prominent. The mouthfeel was thick and oily, really coating the tongue - outstanding. Overall, great beer, lots of good stuff going on here.

22oz bottle - a strangely enticing bit of late-summer label imagery staring me in the face right about now.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splotchy snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of grainy and biscuity caramel malt, white grapefruit and blood orange citrus, indistinct but heady melon fruit notes, a bit of that hard water Northeast Coast flintiness, some subtle earthy yeastiness, and further leafy, grassy, and piney hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, still prominent but mixed domestic citrus bitters, a consistent Vermont-friendly chalkiness, muddled tropical fruit, ethereal earthy yeast, and more piney, leafy, and herbal hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its plainly workaday frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and more or less smooth, if you're willing to forgo any bias against hops being a game-killer here, as such. It finishes trending dry, all citrusy and piney hops this, and biscuity malt that - yeah.

Well, I've had a few of this brewery's offerings via different border-crossing vectors (thanks, IronDjinn) in the last year or so, and none have resonated as much as this one has for its style (that's not a knock on the others, FWIW) - big and brassy and hoppy in a varied manner - man, I could drink this mo-fo all day long, given a locally-priced chance!